Land of the Free [follow this link to find a video and analysis that chronicles the role played by the media in exaggerating the scale of the cocaine problem in the 1980s and the role this moral panic would eventually play in building a system of mass incarceration: http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/1/post/2013/11/crack-babies-a-tale-from-the-war-on-drugs.html] Read more here (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/us-prison-population_n_4214626.html)